Last week I switched from VMWare to Virtual Box at home. Why? Well, hack value mostly and I also wanted to learn more about Virtual Box having never used it before. Bottom line, for home use it suits me very nicely and is far easier to get installed and running when compared to VMWare Server which almost always required patching. The Virtual Box and Guest Additions (think VMWare Tools) installers both worked without a hitch. I even migrated my existing VMWare guests to Virtual Box, again everything went smoothly and my existing .vmdk disks worked just fine. I’ve summarised the steps involved when migrating from VMWare to Virtual Box in the wiki article below.

• http://wiki.flexion.org/VirtualBox.html